"Anthony’s humour is ...beginning to work its magic on the audience.

Underground in the groovy Cavern Club you don’t expect to have your mind read by a rather attractive and very charismatic man in a really nice suit.

Well isn’t Adelaide lucky to have a man come and blow us away with his ‘mind reading’ skills and prove that men really do pay attention! Well at least we know that this does.

With an introduction on a screen similar to an epic film such as Star Wars, Anthony’s humour is already beginning to work its magic on the audience. After this grand video introduction without him appearing he suddenly gives away that he is sitting on the bar behind his audience, watching like a creepy mind reader about to choose their prey. A bit unnerving but nevertheless, intriguing-already the audience is allured by his presence.

He explains to the audience that he uses body language, psychology and other forms of science to ‘read minds’. He doesn’t claim to have any psychic powers and explains the ‘typical’ action a person would do when put into particular situations and predicts the outcome of his tricks, amazing the audience with the result every time!

By using number and chance games Anthony selects at random people from the audience to help out with his tricks. Continually interacting with his audience, using simple props and proving his acts to be proper and not misleading or bogus, Mr Laye is simply captivating.

With a bit of effort to set up his stage; organising props for when they are needed to make sure that the show runs smoothly, camera’s, isles and markings on the stage for the volunteers to position themselves on this one man show becomes a show to actively partake in.

His form of entertainment is very effective and inclusive therefore adding to the magic because you are literally a part of it. Lighting and stage wise it is not a huge production and it doesn’t need to be because the entertainment comes straight from the audience and Mr Laye.

The audience members were all adults; they were serving alcohol in the venue, however this show is not out of the question for kids. The show is just a very fast paced and intellectually driven piece that may be more confusing than entertaining for a young audience. Having said that, it may be inspiring for Year 11 and 12 students, psychology and even art and drama students due to the pure awe that your are left with at the end of the show.

It would be unfortunate to miss this show. You see television shows about masterminds predicting things, being able to tell if you are lying or not and using science to blow you away with their intelligence, this is one of them in the flesh and he is oh so very impressive!

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